Through the Fire
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It was Mr. Wong’s turn to pick his granddaughter up from school that day. But shortly after he left his apartment, at the Wang Fuk Court complex in Hong Kong, flames burst from the tower where he and his wife lived. “My wife is inside!” he screamed, pointing toward the fire.
There to capture Wong’s anguish was Tyrone Siu, a Pulitzer-winning photographer from Reuters. Siu had just pulled up to the scene, and he quickly took a series of striking shots of the building aflame. But the one that stands out is of Wong, seventy-one, whose face is racked by the pain of a man powerless to save his wife. It was, as noted in the Sunday Long Read, the rare photo that “captures the emotion of an event and the event itself in the same frame.”
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